Arch-Vile NL Posted June 15, 2021 Just curious for fun and out of passion for the game but how old is doomworld? has it been around since the early days? 2 Share this post Link to post
lubba127 Posted June 15, 2021 simple google search says it was founded in 1998 5 Share this post Link to post
roadworx Posted June 15, 2021 22 minutes ago, Mayomancer said: About the same age as me lol you're older than dirt 9 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) For those wondering about the 1993-1998 Doom community (and beyond), most of it can be found on old GeoCities, Angelfire and TriPod archived sites: https://doomshack.org/olddoomsites.html And a huge chunk of it is archived in the old Doom UseNet groups as well. There’s still a lot from other outside sources that wasn’t archived.. and Mad Butcher has given me about 100 MORE sites to add to the Old Doom Sites page.. but yeah, a big chunk of it is saved thanks solely to Archive.org and Google Groups. Doomworld has been the central hub of classic Doom since the early 00s, but there’s always been other stuff as well. Trying to archive it all can be kinda hard, but it’s worth it for Doom’s sake. On 6/9/2021 at 1:53 PM, Doomkid said: All of the old Doom Usenet stuff is archived in Google groups these days, isn’t it? I know a good chunk of it is - but sifting through it all is hard, especially since for the last 10+ years the pages have been relegated to spambot dumping grounds.. The Usenet era was way before my time, so I might be missing some links, but if you sift all the way back to the 90s and very early 00s, you can find the goods, and all the rec.games.computer.doom stuff seems to be saved, as well as the alt.games.doom stuff: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.games.doom https://groups.google.com/g/alt.games.doom.ii https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.misc https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.playing https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.announce https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.editing https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.doom.help 16 Share this post Link to post
The Lone Wolf Posted June 16, 2021 14 hours ago, Lippeth said: 23 years: 3 months: 3 days Yes he is 23 years old and now studying at a college and trying to find a suitable job for this summer to save some money to pay student taxes. Damn some old fellas say when he was at age 15. He was into satanism or someshit just before dope-fish became a phenomenon again. He also had his own pocket hell dimension to put naughty friends for a while. 0 Share this post Link to post
Tony_Pepporoni Posted June 16, 2021 7 hours ago, roadworx said: lol you're older than dirt I'm sure he's younger than Chief Keef and i believe he could only drive legally when he released his Finally Rich album 1 Share this post Link to post
Jello Posted June 16, 2021 I found the site when I was a Freshman in highschool. I was perusing the school library and stumbled upon "Knee Deep in the Dead". I read it, and it was alright. Then I thought about the fact that I hadn't really played Doom since Quake came out, and that I should look at what was happening with Doom. 20 years later, here I am. 1 Share this post Link to post
The_MártonJános Posted June 16, 2021 Older than Linguica himself was when he founded it. 4 Share this post Link to post
Spladam Posted June 16, 2021 @Doomkid You just sent me down a Usenet rabbit hole of nostalgia. The best thing about Google archiving the old Usenet in Google Groups is all the folks replying to 20yo video game questions and console war flame post. It warms my heart. I often wonder how many how many folks reading Doomworld these days are younger than the forum itself. 2 Share this post Link to post
UnknDoomer Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) Centuries ago in a time of darkness, fury and conspiracy (that today known as WEB 1.0) there were some strangers. One of them was called Linguica and one another Not Jabba... I often wonder how many how many folks reading Doomworld these days are younger than the forum itself. And till today nobody really know who was Jabba by other hand. Edited June 16, 2021 by UnknDoomer 0 Share this post Link to post
SLOTH MARINE (CB) Posted June 16, 2021 I'm pretty sure doomworld was created in 1999, so that would mean it is 22 years old or approaching that age. 0 Share this post Link to post
lokbustam257 Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) Years = 2021-1998 = 23 Months = 276 + 6 = 282 Days = 23 years = 8395 + 180 = 8575 There you go. If you count by years, it's 23. If months, then it's 282, and if you count it by days (not accurate) it's 8575 0 Share this post Link to post
Sammy J Posted June 16, 2021 23 hours ago, Arch-Vile NL said: has it been around since the early days? Last millennium when people launched Pong from A: Yep. 0 Share this post Link to post
out_of_service Posted June 16, 2021 I remember when ZanZan was featured on the front page of Doomworld. Oh those were the days. 1 Share this post Link to post
roadworx Posted June 16, 2021 13 hours ago, Spladam said: I often wonder how many how many folks reading Doomworld these days are younger than the forum itself. quite a few, myself included (although only by two years) 2 Share this post Link to post
Arch-Vile NL Posted June 17, 2021 haha seems to be quite old funny to see it still so alive :P 1 Share this post Link to post
